DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing 2022 and Chris Solis Green, who edited the project, have received yet another glowing piece written about the project, this time in Poetry & Writers, the prominent national trade magazine founded in 1970.
The Underground would like to congratulate Chris Green and all of the student editors who made Blue Book happen!
If you’re interested in procuring a copy, you can order one HERE
You can read the Poets and Writers piece HERE
“It’s amazing what teenagers are capable of creating. This anthology is a testament to the talent that’s in our young people,” Solís Green says.
You can read the rest of the article here
You can get the exclusive publication of Sarah Fay’s ‘Cured: The Memoir’—plus resources, interviews, and other stories of mental health recovery— Here
You can order a copy of the Spring ’23 issue Here
Barrie Jean Borich and Heather Montes-Ireland (WGS) have been awarded a HumanitiesX fellowship for next academic year. This marks the third year (out of three) that English faculty have landed this fellowship. Chris Green was the first, then Miles Harvey, and now Barrie Borich!
In the mood for a story about a scam artist posing as a man of God? Read the piece that novelist Karen Russell describes as “a mutant menagerie of literary fiction … an oasis for weirdness and wonder.” You can find The Complete Miracles of St. Anthony: Definitive Edition with Previously Unpublished Material HERE on Conjunctions.
A prequel to this piece, Beachcombers In Doggerland, was published in The Sun. Get the full story, read both!
This is a virtual event hosted on crowdcast.
Charis welcomes Francesca Royster in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a discussion of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance. A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides.
You can read an excerpt of the essay here, and find the full piece in fall 2022 issue, Conjunctions:79, Onword. Conjunctions is a biannual literary anthology published by Bard College.
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